[Python-Dev] Path object design (original) (raw)

Andrew Dalke dalke at dalkescientific.com
Sun Nov 5 12:23:25 CET 2006

Steve:

> I'm darned if I know. I simply know that it isn't right for http resources.

/F:

the URI specification disagrees; an URI that starts with "../" is per- fectly legal, and the specification explicitly states how it should be interpreted.

I have looked at the spec, and can't figure out how its explanation matches the observed urljoin results. Steve's excerpt trimmed out the strangest example.

urlparse.urljoin("http://blah.com/a/b/c", "../../../") 'http://blah.com/../' urlparse.urljoin("http://blah.com/a/b/c", "../../../..") # What?! 'http://blah.com/' urlparse.urljoin("http://blah.com/a/b/c", "../../../../") 'http://blah.com/../../'

(it's important to realize that "urijoin" produces equivalent URI:s, not file names)

Both, though, are "paths". The OP, Mik Orr, wrote:

I agree that supporting non-filesystem directories (zip files, CSV/Subversion sandboxes, URLs) would be nice, but we already have a big enough project without that. What constraints should a Path object keep in mind in order to be forward-compatible with this?

Is the answer therefore that URLs and URI behaviour should not place constraints on a Path object becuse they are sufficiently dissimilar from file-system paths? Do these other non-FS hierarchical structures have similar differences causing a semantic mismatch?

                            Andrew
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